期刊名称:Physical Review ST Physics Education Research
电子版ISSN:1554-9178
出版年度:2017
卷号:13
期号:2
页码:1-12
DOI:10.1103/PhysRevPhysEducRes.13.020132
出版社:American Physical Society
摘要:We describe a study on the conceptual difficulties faced by college students in understanding hydrodynamics of ideal fluids. This study was based on responses obtained in hundreds of written exams complemented with several oral interviews, which were held with first-year engineering and science university students. Their responses allowed us to identify a series of misconceptions unreported in the literature so far. The study findings demonstrate that the most critical difficulties arise from the students’ inability to establish a link between the kinematics and dynamics of moving fluids, and from a lack of understanding regarding how different regions of a system interact.